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Tuesday, July 22, 2008

VIM rocks at Textile

OK, so I am enamorated with VIM!

It so turns out editing Textile in VIM is quite awesome. Put your cursor over “h1.”, press CTRL-a, and whazam: you get “h2.” . If you use the surround.vim1 plugin, and want to bold the last three words: ‘v3bs∗’ (start selecting text, back three words, surround with ∗). If you want to turn 3 words into a link: v3es”f”a:http://google.com. Convert a series of lines (single spaced) into a list: <Ctrl-v>}I∗<Space><Esc>.

What is VIM lacking then? Well, how about Textile highlighting and a command to quickly preview or render your Textile you may say? Good thing there’s a TOTALLY AWESOME PLUGIN (shameless plug) for VIM to make that a thing of yesteryear!

What manner of man are you?

I'm a family man / software engineer / entrepreneur. I get excited about applying technology to increase human capacity and the standard of living for all.

I'm also an avid Rock Climber, and hobby vocalist / musician. I'm spiritual and believe the greatest purpose is found in optimizing for human happiness. I believe in a moral system with a rational basis. I'm a skeptic and believe that amazing claims should be backed up by amazing data. I'm libertarian.

I've got much to share, so this blog was born. But I'm also busy, so this blog is often neglected.